Ready Mix

Ready Mix 2021 is a fortyfiveminute film shot over two years at a concrete plant in central Idaho Ready Mixrecordsthe churning transformation of mineral aggregates and cement binders into one of the worlds most ubiquitous building materialsreadymix concrete The films extrawide aspect ratio referencesthe surveying origins of the anamorphic format Developed during World War I to give militarytank operators more expansive views of the terrain the format later became a staple of Western genre films Ready Mix collapses this perspectival depth into visual flatness and material density In doing so it counters the ways in which Westerns traditionally frame the landscape to perpetuate the myth of the socalled frontier as receding empty and untamed